Rio’s Little Africa, Where Enslaved Africans Were Landed, Now Has a Community Map
Most visitors know Rio’s Little Africa, Pequena África, for Monday samba, not the Valongo Wharf nearby, where enslaved Africans landed....
September 27, 2026Topic
Little Africa
Slavery Museum Faces Closure for Lack of Funding in Rio
The Instituto Pretos Novos, Rio’s slave cemetery and free slavery museum, may close this week due to a lack of...
March 30, 2017
Pedra do Sal, the Birthplace of Samba in Rio de Janeiro
On Monday and Friday evenings throughout Rio’s summer some of the city’s best samba players gather to put on a...
December 7, 2015